Bird, dandelions, blurred background....creative titles are difficult.

[AdamFromCanada (Adam Severeid)]

But the PlayRaw shouldn’t be too difficult.
Not sure exactly what I’d like to see with this but I think a sharp foreground and well defined bird would be easy enough for you folks.
I do remember that this morning of shooting back in April of this year was meant to just be a short excursion…scouting actually. It ended up turning in to a 5 hour trip to three different locations, two batteries and some 400+ images later I returned home.

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[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

One possibility with dt 4.8.0

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[lphilpot (Len Philpot)]

ART 1.22

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[priort (Todd Prior)]

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[martin.scharnke]

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[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

A simple edit in DT V4.9 composed for better or worse using the the rule of thirds for the cropping.
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[commutergraphics]

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[Popanz (Uli - using AgX)]

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[Thomas_Do (Thomas)]

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[Zbyma72age]

My fun with ART and GIMP

[dqpcoxeas]

My version…

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[Popanz (Uli - using AgX)]

A second try (leaving some grain in):

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[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

Ok, closer to the bird and jazzier lighting. Still trying to keep it “real”, though.

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[age]

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[lylejk (Lyle Kroll)]

G’MIC’s dehaze and Local Variance Normalization blend. Dehaze is one of my favorite presets for images like this.

[iarga]

Thank you for the play. With ART, GIMP and G’MIC:

[Guillermo]

Funny

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[Santiago-Ignacio]

Good shot!

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[gigaturbo]

With a blurred foreground

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[Geoff1]

Northern Flicker, red-shafted male, most likely Arizona or thereabouts.